Congress Critters

[JackLuis]

Know your Congress Critter. They say the damnedest things.

In 2010, Joe Barton R-Tx apologised to BP over a deal requiring the company to set aside $20bn for oil spill clean-up costs. Photograph: Haraz N Ghanbari/AP​

US congressman cites biblical flood to dispute human link to climate change

Texas Republican Joe Barton says deluge 'certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy'

 

[JackLuis]

Rep. Stockman floats new slogan: ‘If babies had guns, they wouldn’t be aborted’​

Stockman has only been in office a few months, but has already become known for his controversial tweets.

“If Obama gets any more bitter they’ll bottle his sweat as tonic water,” he wrote in early March.

“The best thing about the Earth is if you poke holes in it oil and gas come out,” another tweet said.

 

[LadyVer]

There should probably be some dumb quotes from.Dems as well to even the playing field.

 

[JackLuis]

There should probably be some dumb quotes from.Dems as well to even the playing field.

I've been looking for them but I only found our VP.

And no he's not talking about Wayne Lapierrs dick!

Biden: Gun Owners ‘Just Like the Feel...Like Driving a Ferrari’

 

[LadyVer]

I've been looking for them but I only found our VP.

And no he's not talking about Wayne Lapierrs dick!

Biden is his own man.

 

[JackLuis]

Found a Democrat! It's not what she said but what she's proposed.

Barbara Boxer, AIPAC seek to codify Israel's right to discriminate against Americans

A bill introduced by the California Democrat would uniquely exempt Israel from long-standing requirements imposed on all other nations

All Californians, write her and ask if she believes in equal rights or just for Israelis?

 

[LadyVer]

Found a Democrat! It's not what she said but what she's proposed.

All Californians, write her and ask if she believes in equal rights or just for Israelis?

Sounds weird. I don't think much of Greenwald though as his style is to twist facts and opinions to make a story. Plus I don't like what he said about Tim Russert.

What do you think about Boxer and this issue? I don't usually read much on Israel issues as it seems like most people don't know what they're talking about on it, especially when they bring Christianity into it.

 

[JackLuis]

Sounds weird. I don't think much of Greenwald though as his style is to twist facts and opinions to make a story. Plus I don't like what he said about Tim Russert.

What do you think about Boxer and this issue? I don't usually read much on Israel issues as it seems like most people don't know what they're talking about on it, especially when they bring Christianity into it.

I believe Glenn much more than Brian Williams and the other talking heads, and his twists are generally toward the morally balanced. He has the guts to say things that only Matt Taibbi and a few others would actually say to power.

I think my Honorable Senator is not living up to her duty to honor America and American principles.

I never vote for her in a primary or the election if the Republicans could put up a less objectionable candidate. It can't be that difficult, but they fail a lot. I think it is her responsibility to represent the people of California and not AIPAC. She should be spending her time passing a bill that would allow the Fed to relieve California's Debt, It would be a lot less that bailing out the billionaires of Wall Street and would gain a lot of votes in California for 2016.

 

[JackLuis]

Okay this one sort of explains why our Government is dysfunctional.

Matt Taibbi-'Bailout': Neil Barofsky's Adventures in Groupthink City

In his review of 'Bailout' Matt concludes with-

If you follow issues like Too-Big-To-Fail or Wall Street corruption long enough, you realize that the reason things don't get done about them by our government has very little to do with ideology or even politics, in the way most of us understand politics.

Instead, it's a bizarre, almost tribal mentality that rules our capital city – a kind of groupthink that makes extreme myopia and a willingness to ignore the tribe's ostensible connection to the people who elected them a condition for social advancement within. Most normal people don't get to see what that place is like, because most of the rearview-mirror accounts of that world are written by people who somewhere along the line became infected by the Beltway disease. Only a few true outsiders make it out alive, and only a few of those write books. This is one of the best.

 

[JackLuis]

Bipartisan Honesty!

Be still my beating heart, can it be that Congress is actually careing about the Truth!

Nonpartisan review concludes Bush knowingly ordered torture

“After conducting our own two-year investigation, weighing the credibility of all sources and studying the current public record, we have come to the regrettable, but unavoidable, conclusion that the United States did indeed engage in conduct that is clearly torture,” former Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR), who served as undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security during the Bush administration, said in an advisory.

The 577-page review, put together by the advocacy group The Constitution Project, includes interviews with dozens of people who have first-hand knowledge of the discussions about interrogation techniques and their implementation. Although Bush administration loyalists said at the time that “enhanced interrogation tactics” like stress positions, waterboarding, mock executions, sensory deprivation and prolonged diapering were not torture, this report aims to specifically and finally emphasize that these activities meet the clinical definition of “torture.”

So what are they going to DO about it?

All criminal investigations into the Bush torture program have been called off by the Obama administration.

Nothing! It seems that equal justice is so 20th Century.

 

[JackLuis]

Congratulations to Republican Michigan Congresswoman Candice Miller!

Republican rep. slams DHS over border security: ‘This is not rocket scientry!’

Not only did she invent a new word but she did it while doing her job!

Republican Michigan Congresswoman Candice Miller this week criticized the Obama administration for failing to provide better border security, insisting that it was “not rocket scientry.”

A bipartisan group of senators known as the “Gang of Eight” — led by Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Charles Schumer (D-NY) — announced Tuesday a comprehensive immigration reform bill that was expected to include a 13-year pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and $5.5 billion in increased spending on border security over 10 years.

Maybe the Red Congress will hold Obama's feet to the fire long enough to get his attention on his job, instead of posturing and pandering to the headlines? I'm not holding my breath, though.

 

[JackLuis]

Congress Makes Sure they Have No Flight Delays, While Sequestration Heaps Huge Damage on Many Millions

Congress, once again, proves that they only concentrate on the Important to Them stuff.

 

[JackLuis]

How We Ended Up with the Worst Congress Money Can Buy

"An Honest Politician Stays Bought" -